Public advocacy group Public Citizen aims to pressure Facebook to change its practices on users’ comments, images and “likes” being used in advertisements, The New York Times reports. In a legal brief to be filed today at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, the group will ask a judge to throw out a 2012 Facebook settlement on the matter, stating it violates laws in seven states because it doesn’t require Facebook to obtain permission from parents before using teens’ data. Meanwhile, Facebook has banned a couple of vendors from its site for privacy violations. (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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